Chris, I realize now how right you are. I shall follow your recommendation and retire into my canyon called Mahogany Trail. Perhaps I can get the neighbors to put up barricades at the mouth of the canyon to stop Mad Deer disease.
As deer are everywhere, eating our roses, clipping the grass on the lawns, jumping fences, it obviously isn't going to be easy. We'll have to give them orientation classes if we find out how to catch them. The 5,000 or so lions spread across the surrounding mountains don't do much of a job cutting the deer population, but another thought intrudes. If a mountain lion catches Mad Deer and attacks when I'm walking up on the trails, I'll have a real worry. Sure he may have gotten away with my arm, but I might have contracted the disease. I had better stop my walking and retire behind the barricades - if I can get the neighbors to help me erect them. You see they don't appreciate reality as you do. They want their Cheddar from Oregon - and their Stilton from England. Not realizing the harm they are doing, they insist on their Mexican tomatoes, their Florida Orange Juice - not to mention their Ontario Maple Syrup and their Idaho potatoes. Not realizing the importance of supporting government heavily subsidized rice growing in the heat of California's semiarid Central Valley (less than 50mm of rainfall a year) we all buy Basmati rice from India. I know you would prefer us to buy locally from the Valley, but we somewhat free people simply won't do what you know to be right. In passing, I should note that more water evaporates from the Central Valley rice-fields than is used by the entire city of Los Angeles. But that's the way government projects operate. Not that the subsidized rice is for us. It's sent overseas to compete with countries who make their livings from exporting rice. That's known as winning the hearts and minds of the Thais. Yes, this kind of thing, which of course you want as you don't want free trade, may seem a tiny bit stupid, but anything is preferable to allowing people freely to exchange with each other. Well, I'm off to the kitchen, walking across my carpet - made somewhere in Asia - to make another pot of tea. We don't grow tea in the US, so we simply have to import it - the more's the pity. So, I get it from Murchie's in Vancouver, British Columbia, no doubt harvested from the extensive fields around Victoria. Oops! The neighbors have arrived. They have torn down my barricade at the entrance to the canyon and want me locked up. They don't realize the importance of protecting ourselves from other people. However, I know what to do. I'll pour some Drambuie (from Scotland) into glasses from France and when they leave, I'll give them a piece of Swiss chocolate. That will cool them down. Harry _____________________________________________ Christoph wrote: > > The disease, he claims, is traveling faster and more effectively than > > nature could ever accomplish. He suspects this is due to the interstate > > transportation of game farm animals. > >Ain't Free Trade wonderful ? >(as with BSE proper) > >Chris ****************************** Harry Pollard Henry George School of LA Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (818) 352-4141 Fax: (818) 353-2242 *******************************
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